The Leather Boys (1961) • Gillian Freeman
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275 pages • Anthony Blond • 1961 [PB]
A gay love story about young working-class men, for a change (or at least it was back in the ’60s.)
PermalinkThe Leather Boys is a 1961 London pulp novel by Gillian Freeman, and later made into a New Wave Brit flick in 1963 by the aptly named Sidney Furie. It is about two late-teen, working-class, south London ton-up biker boys who find themselves surprised, unnerved & ultimately confused to discover they’re in love with each other.